The rise and fall of soul and self : an intellectual history of personal identity /
Raymond Martin and John Barresi trace the development of Western ideas about personal identity and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. They begin with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the m...
| Основен автор: | Martin, Raymond, 1941- |
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| Други автори: | Barresi, John, 1941- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
℗♭2006.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=168512 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Rise and fall of soul and self. |
| Резюме: |
Raymond Martin and John Barresi trace the development of Western ideas about personal identity and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. They begin with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. Paul, Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne. In their coverage of the emergence of a new mechanistic conception of nat. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (383 pages) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-361) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
0231510675 9780231510677 |